contract violations. hello and welcome. russian police have detained more than 2,000 people at protests in support of the jailed opposition leader, alexei navalny. large gatherings have been taking place across russia, including the eastern cities of vladivostok and kha barovsk. in the siberian city of yakutsk, protesters braved temperatures of 50 degrees. the main demonstration was in the capital, moscow, from where our correspondent steve rosenberg reports. in moscow, you can feel the anger. police had warned people, any protest would be broken up. any protester risked arrest. but thousands came to pushkin square to support the kremlin s fiercest critic, alexei navalny. freedom to navalny , they cried, and russia without putin . on her way to the protest, mr navalny s wife, yulia, was detained by police. so were hundreds of others, for taking part in what the authorities called an unsanctioned gathering. for years, the russian authorities made out that alexei navalny had
[ chanting ] all of east germany, angry crowds lashed out on the streets. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down, police weren t going to help. he called for instruction. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him simply, moscow is silent. i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace shoveling documents, as he hears protests on the street. they were filing so many documents, that the furnace was
that s what is so confusing so to many people right now. ed, just hours before this opinion came down to leave the state to get her abortion, how are her lawyers responding to what we learned last night? they said she simply was running out of time. she is now 21 weeks pregnant. she felt like she needed to make this decision. after the attorney general had appealed to the supreme court, they essentially paused that lower court ruling, giving her the permission to get the abortion legally and waited for three days for the texas supreme court. so because of that, they described her situation as being in legal limbo and described the weekend as hellish for her. that s why she arrived on monday and made the decision to leave the state to get this abortion. and what many critics of the abortion law and the situation in texas is saying is that texas supreme court ruling really sends a signal to many women across the state of texas that you cannot go to a court and get that p
on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks to your home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. so it was june 1942, which means obviously we are in the thick of it in terms of world war ii. june 1942 in a german submarine, a german boat turned up in the hamptons. a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in which is on long island, in the hamptons, in new york. this german submarine drops off for guys, for saboteurs. we know they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft that was launched from the submarine once they hit the beach, they buried the raft, they also buried what they brought ashore with him which was a big cache of explosives and that leaders. and then they got away. so that was mid june 1942, a few days later, four days, later another submarine turned up elsewhere on the american
practice yesterday. but tonight his colleagues, both republicans and democrats will go ahead with their annual game. it s a rare show of political unity. less unified, president trump hits back at reports he is under investigation for obstruction ofjustice. he calls it the biggest witch hunt in history. and the australian prime minister pokes fun at donald trump s winning ways. we ll let you judge the impersonation. i am christian fraser in london, katty kay is in washington. we still don t know how many people died in the grenfell tower blaze police say it will be more than the current death toll, which stands at 17. and such is the destruction inside the building it could take firefighters weeks to recover the remains. today sniffer dogs, much lighter than people, and specially trained to locate bodies, have been sent into the building to help with the search. 37 people remain in hospital, 17 are in critical care. our home affairs editor mark easton has this report. slowly,